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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Our fundamental and applied research on economic, social and cultural rights examines a range of issues, including the right to food and the rights of peasants, and contributes to policy development, legal negotiations, and debates among scholars, practitioners and governments.

A woman worker at a construction site in India

© ILO/ Joydeep Mukherjee

Human Rights and Gender Equality in the Context of Business Activities
Wheat field

Daniel Taylor

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and the Protection of the Right to Seeds in Europe
Senegal, Ziguinchor area, Bignona Department, Kataba 1 municipality, Kouram village. A woman works in a vegetable garden as part of an economic security programme.

ICRC

Towards Food Sustainability: Reshaping the Coexistence of Different Food Systems in South America and Africa
Somalia, Bakool region, Hudur village. Woman selling products at market.

ICRC

Land Commercialization, Gendered Agrarian Transformation and the Right to Food (DEMETER)
Madagascar, Miarinarivo district. Women transplanting rice.

ICRC

The Rights of Peasants
Rwanda, on the outskirts of Kigali, Wa-Jali. Jeanne Françoise, a young girl reunited two years ago with her grandmother by the ICRC, stands in a banana orchard near her house.

ICRC

Development and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICRC

Protection of Education in Armed Conflict

Completed in December 2014

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